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Isolation: A New Wave of Experiences to Help Teams Work Side by Side

Cribl offers a suite of tools designed to optimize data pipelines, with different components tailored for managing and orchestrating data flows at scale across different teams and data sources. One of the biggest problems with building and running a multi-team data engine is isolation. This blog will cover how we at Cribl have handled the challenge of data, configuration, and access isolation for growing teams.

A beginner's guide to performance monitoring: What you need to know

Having a fast and reliable website or app is super important. Users want things to load quickly, and if they don't, they get frustrated and might leave. This is where performance monitoring can help. Performance monitoring means keeping an eye on how your website or app is working. It involves tracking things like how fast pages load, how often the site is up, and if there are any slowdowns. By monitoring these things, you can find and fix problems before your users even notice them.

Zero Trust Pipelines with OIDC, Cloudsmith, and GitHub Actions

In CI/CD workflows, leaked credentials pose a significant threat, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data breaches, and system compromises, ultimately disrupting development pipelines and undermining the integrity of software deployment processes.

Introducing Aiven's AI Database Optimizer: The First Built-In SQL Optimizer for Enhanced Performance

Increase database performance by 10x with an expert, AI-driven, professional available 24/7. An efficient data infrastructure is a vital component in building & operating scalable and performant applications that are widely adopted, satisfy customers, and ultimately, drive business growth. Unfortunately, the speed of new feature delivery coupled with a lack of database optimization knowledge is exposing organizations to high risk performance issues.

Third Largest Retailer Worldwide Builds Automation Over Time to Launch Cost Savings, Surge ROI

A leading retailer based in the U.K., in early 2021, was in search of help to solve a few problems its business was facing, and so they decided to implement automation—starting with the resolution of service desk tickets. There were too many tasks and processes that the company’s IT team was completing manually. They needed to automate such repetitive work, with the potential to build onto other automations already in place.

Virtualizing Our Storage Engine

Our storage engine, affectionately known as Retriever, has served us faithfully since the earliest days of Honeycomb. It’s a tool that writes data to disk and reads it back in a way that’s optimized for the time series-based queries our UI and API makes. Its architecture has remained mostly stable through some major shifts in the surrounding system it supports, notably including our 2021 implementation of a new data model for environments and services.

Migrating from ECS to EKS: A Complete Guide

Organizations are constantly seeking ways to optimize their IT operations, reduce costs, and improve flexibility. One trend gaining popularity is the shift from Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This migration is driven by several factors, including the desire for greater flexibility, improved scalability, reduced vendor lock-in, and access to the rich feature set offered by Kubernetes.

Scorecard Series: Migrations without the Migraine

Software migrations are an inevitable part of running any technical organization. Whether you're upgrading your database, moving to a new cloud provider, or modernizing legacy applications, migrations are necessary to keep software efficient and secure. Unfortunately, migrations are often a slow and messy processes, dragging across months and potentially years. They are difficult to coordinate, from both managerial and technical standpoints, and often cause a lot of frustration for those involved.